Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> And note that all this was done inside Rossi's own facility. Note further > that, according to Randi, scientists are the most easily-fooled audience of > all. Just ask Geller and Taylor. > I have corresponded with Randi. He does not understand the first thing about cold fusion or experimental science. He has no idea how anyone could pull of a hoax of this nature, any more than Yugo does. This is not case of fooling people. You have to fool instruments and video cameras. I am sick of hearing about Geller. He fooled scientists when he did a sleight of hand trick. That was him doing his own business -- stage magic. Not an experiment, and not something that scientists would know anything about. They have no training in this. They did not use instruments. As I have said before, finding experimental errors is FAR more difficult than finding deliberate fraud. There is no method of fraud one-tenth as subtle as the problems Mother Nature throws at you in an experiment. These researchers have spent a lifetime teasing out experimental errors. The people who make power analyzers have dealt with every possible waveform and condition. They know what electricity can and cannot do. Rossi has not discovered some condition that the instrument manufacturers never seen in the last 140 years. Everything that can go wrong with electric power has gone wrong. The instruments are designed to find problems. That is what they are for. The professors do not have to think about this any more than they have to think about emissivity. They just fill in the data on the screen and confirm that the computed temperature matches the thermocouple reading. - Jed
